Flexible manufacturing system is a system that is able to respond to changed conditions. In general, this flexibility is divided into two key categories and several subcategories. The first category is the so called machine flexibility which enables to make various products by the given machinery. The second category is routing flexibility enabling to execute the same operation by various machi...

Systemy produkcyjne stanowią jeden z głównych filarów przedsiębiorstw. Ich wydajność i zasady funkcjonowania determinują finalną jakość produktów, których odbiorcami są instytucje oraz konsumenci końcowi. Jednak współcześnie oprócz wcześniej wymienionych zagadnień pojawiły się nowe wymagania związane koncepcją zrównoważonego rozwoju. Metody produkcji, wpływ na środowisko naturalne czy poszanowa...

Under an uncertain environment, two manufacturing strategies emerged: manufacturing system automation and manufacturing system integration. Existing case studies indicate that firms should adopt manufacturing integration first and then automate the manufacturing system to improve manufacturing performance. This study empirically supports this proposition using 303 responses from manufacturing m...

In today's competitive market, quality has an important role in manufacturing system. The manufacturers attempt to maintain their production system in a proper condition to produce high quality products. One of the key factors to achieve this goal is maintenance policy. Most studies on maintenance focused on machines and less attention has been paid to human resources as the most important fact...

In today's competitive market, all manufacturers attempt to improve their maintenance policy in order to decrease the cost of failure and increase the quality of products, but most of these attempts do not consider the role of humans involved in a manufacturing system. Human resources are the main factor in manufacturing that has an undeniable effect on products quality, machines reliability, s...